Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested three youths for killing two children after abducting them from Narayanganj on January 21.
The arrestees are Parvez Hossain, 21, Md Jahangir Hossain, 30 and Shah Ali, 22. All the three detainees hail from Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj.
“During the primary interrogation, we have come to know that Parvez was the mastermind behind the abduction and killing of the two children following his personal enmity with former employer Shamsul Alam and step-father Rahmat Ali,” said RAB Wing Commander ATM Habibur Rahman during a press briefing at RAB headquarters in the capital on Monday evening.
On January 21, the criminals kidnapped Zahidul Islam, 13, a Class-VII student of Omar Ali High School, and Saqin Alam, 9, a Class III student of the same school, from Kanchpur area and demanded Tk20 lakh as ransom from their guardians.
However, just a day later, police recovered the beheaded body of Zahid, son of Rahmat Ali and step brother of Parvez, from a sack at Bargaon Beribadh near Kanchpur, and the body of Saqin, son of Shamsul Alam, from a sack near a wetland the next day.
“Although the kidnappers had killed both the boys shortly after the abduction, they continued their demand of Tk20 lakh as ransom from the two families,” added the Habibur Rahman.
The RAB director said Parvej was a former employee of a motor garage owned by Shamsul Alam in Gazipur, which he had left following a disagreement with the owner over salary and other benefits. Besides, Parvez and his family also had been a tenant of a house owned by Shamsul.
After quitting his job at the garage, Parvez sent a proposal to Shamsul’s eldest daughter and was later rebuked by Shamsul and his step-father Rahmat over his approach. Following the incident, Parvez became furious and drafted the brutal plan to abduct and kill Zahidul and Sakin, to get back at Shamsul and his step-father.
Parvez also sought help of two of his friends, Shah Ali and Jahangir, for his evil plans and promised them a share of the ransom once the job was done.
Rab officials said they first arrested Shah Ali and Jahangir from Meghnaghat at Narayanganj on Monday morning and later Parvej was arrested at Senpara in Kanchpur in the afternoon.
He claimed all the three detainees admitted their involvement in the abduction of the children and brutal killings.
